Desiderius Erasmus Quotes About War

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  • The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

    "Adagia". Book by Desiderius Erasmus, 1500.
  • Dulce bellum inexpertis. - War is lovely for those who know nothing about it.

  • War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

    Desiderius Erasmus (1962). “Handbook of the Militant Christian”
  • Christians would show sense if they dispatched these argumentative Scotists and pigheaded Ockhamists and undefeated Albertists along with the whole regiment of Sophists to fight the Turks and Saracens instead of sending those armies of dull-witted soldiers with whom they've long been carrying on war with no result.

    Desiderius Erasmus, Erika Rummel (1990). “The Erasmus Reader”, p.160, University of Toronto Press
  • War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it. Dulce bellum inexpertis.

  • The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.

    Desiderius Erasmus, Erika Rummel (1990). “The Erasmus Reader”, p.313, University of Toronto Press
  • War is delightful for those who don't know it

  • There are some whose only reason for inciting war is to use it as a means to exercise their tyranny over their subjects more easily. For in times of peace the authority of the assembly, the dignity of the magistrates, the force of the laws stand in the way to some extent of the ruler doing what he likes. But once war is declared then the whole business of state is subject to the will of a few ... They demand as much money as they like. Why say more?

    Desiderius Erasmus, William Watson Barker (2001). “The Adages of Erasmus”, p.350, University of Toronto Press
  • War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

  • Scarcely is there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war. -Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo sit potior

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